Special Exhibitions

A. Aubrey Bodine: Baltimore Pictorialist
May 3–July 13, 2008

The Morris Museum of Art presents a representative sampling of masterworks by A. Aubrey Bodine, a photographer in the pictorialist style, who worked at the Baltimore Sun for fifty years. Surveying only a small part of his thousands of photographs, this exhibition includes classic examples of his rural and maritime images. Best remembered for his photographs of the Chesapeake Bay and its watermen, Bodine worked in the romantic pictorial tradition, like Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Laura Gilpin. Historians of photography have appreciated the importance of Bodine's work only recently.

The exhibition is being organized with the assistance of Kathleen Ewing, Washington's most important photography dealer and author of an authoritative book on Bodine's photography.

Related Programs
Exhbition Opening
Artrageous! Sunday: Light and Shadow
Gallery Talk

Maryland Log Cabin, 1945. Photograph by A. Aubrey Bodine. Copyright © Jennifer B. Bodine.